Disclaimer: The poem is called Ample make this bed by Emily Dickinson.
Chapter thirty-seven; Beyond the dark side of the valley
Previously
There was one person who did not enjoy the festivities; Voldemort sat at his throne of darkness letting it barricade him, the thin wisps cloaked him in shadows of iniquity. He talked to a man with blond hair, a man who at the flick of his wand would stand, sit even kill.
Christian the trainee watcher had been under the imperious curse for quite some time now, he was the one who told his master of the Scoobies plans to destroy him in the cave, and he was the one who told him where they where the first time the death eaters surrounded all nine of the them.
Christian was reporting to Voldemort weather they were planning to attack again and any other scrap of information he could dwindle out of them. Soon Christian wouldn't just be the cause of a few unneeded fights but a whole war where many would die.
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Ray turned her face upwards so she was staring at him right in the eye, "Good now tell me what was the task I set you?" Ray clutched her chin tighter forcing her neck so far back it almost snapped.
"OW! You wanted m..me to get Ginny as close to Draco as possible and then lead her to him on the night of the task. And you wanted as much information on Harry Potter and his lot as I could get!" Kaiya winced.
"And what did I say I would do if you didn't do these things!" Ray asked this time twisting her arm back as well.
"OW FUCK! You said you would k...kill the the others I...m..mean MY other friends!"
"Right so tell me Kaiya WHY is Ginny Weasely going out with Harry Potter and why haven't you got any other information for me!"
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Lying still on the ground decaying like a putrid fig was a silver haired little girl startling grey eyes stared up at him as if they were always following him her clothes were ripped and covered in ominous symbols. Xander stood aside a hand over his mouth.
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"Her name was Eleanor Malfoy; she went to Bauxbatons School for magic and belonged to a family of Death Eaters," Giles stood sombrely in front of the assembled group.
They had called Giles about the dead little girl and he had insisted on bringing her back to the house, to discover whom she was using his contacts at the Coven. The Scoobies were sitting on brown leather sofas in the living room, all clutching tea and onto the hope this wasn't a trap.
"We need to send her clothes back to the council and get the Mystics department to discover what those symbols mean," Willow said, glancing up from her bare feet, cold against the tiled floor.
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The sun burned a girly pink over the mountains to the west of the castle, its delirious glory radiating over turrets and bridges. The periwinkle blue sky reflected in the placid surface of the lake, shimmering and sparkling like a diamond necklace. The day promised to be hot, although a scatter of fluffy grey clouds seemed to threaten a night of rain.
Kaiya shivered as she felt his breath on the side of her neck, the warm scent of beer clogging her nostrils. She shut her eyes tight to prevent tears as he brought her arm up painfully behind her back.
"So darlin what exactly are you going to do about our little Ginny situation?" Ray said softly.
Kaiya breathed in, trying to pluck up what little courage she had left. "I have a plan, Ginny's been talking to Draco lots lately so I think it'll work."
"You think? Now Kaiya you know that aint good enough," Ray whispered.
"I know it'll work," she replied.
"Good, because Draco's finished his task and I want it done by tonight," Ray let her arm flop soundlessly and then disappeared into the darkened forest. Kaiya let out an anguished sob and dropped to her knees, her life was about to end and there was nothing she could do about it.
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A silence rippled over the house, a silence so profound you could cut through it with a knife. The scene being played out was fit for a murder mystery. In the middle of a bare darkened room were two chairs, Charlie's bloodied form was chained to one and Giles' worn out one sat despairingly in the other. His tie was loose and his hair lay messily on his head.
"Ok Charlie lets try this again shall we?" Giles whispered, his voice echoing around the dank basement.
"Fine," Charlie spat.
"Who. Are. You. Working. For!" Giles shouted as he jumped up knocking his chair down in the process.
"I…I…not…can't," Charlie said silently.
"What?" Giles screamed. There was no reply, Giles sighed, he righted his chair and slumped back down.
"Giles!" The frantic voice of Willow called from up the shadowy staircase.
"Yes," He replied half-heartedly.
"You better come up hear, the mystics have found out what all those symbols meant on Eleanor's clothes!" Willow exclaimed. Giles' head shot up, he took one last agonized look at Charlie and then disappeared up the stairs.
"What have they found out?" Giles asked breathlessly upon his arrival in the sun lit living room.
"Come and sit down," said Buffy who was at the front of the Scoobies with Willow, her hair shimmering in the distant sunlight. Giles took his seat impatiently.
"Ok everyone ready?" Willow asked. "They say: thou must complete the following tasks: first sacrifice the sister, her blood will be known, she will rise as a shimmering ghost and shall slay ten. After, you must find the emeralds of the serpent. The final plea on the final night the night of the full moon calls for the blood of a woman whose virginity has only just been claimed by an enemy and the pure magnificent blood of the human Key. This is how you shall steal the dark lord's power." Willow finished in a dramatic whisper.
"Ok so let's run through it," Faith said logically, she was leaning against the wall with Lola clinging to her shoulder pitifully. The generating sun shone over Faiths face and hair, tiny strands would slip from her ponytail and bounce around her glowing cheekbones every so often.
"Well first they said the blood of the sister so I'm guessing that would be Eleanor," Xander said from his comfortable seat on the squishy sofa, "But whose sister, her last name was Malfoy and didn't Dumbledore say that some guy called Draco Malfoy went to Hogwarts that must be him."
"Well he wouldn't be doing it alone, maybe he has a brother," Buffy said, then as an afterthought, "or another sister, older."
"Maybe. Ok then it said she would slay ten so I guess that must be the ten people on the buss," Angel said as he paced up and down the cold tiled floor, "Emeralds from the serpent must refer to some kind of crystals and the final thing was…"
Spike cut him of obnoxiously, "A bird that just got her first shag has to be bled and the key in human…" he trailed of dismayed.
"Dawn!" Everyone said in unison.
AMPLE make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break
Excellent and fair.
Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;
Let no sunrise' yellow noise
Interrupt this ground.